Overview of Serena Dimensions CM
Serena Dimensions CM
Serena Dimensions CM is a software change and configuration management (SCCM) solution that seamlessly orchestrates application change and configuration across platforms, locations, and teams. Serena Dimensions CM helps you increase development efficiency, lower development costs and risks, and ensure compliance to standards. Scalability for the global enterprise
Serena Dimensions CM is one of the fastest integrated ALM solutions on the market, especially across a wide area network (WAN). In common global development conditions, tests have shown that it is 60 times faster than IBM Rational ClearCase and 3 times faster than Subversion. The performance of Serena Dimensions CM is enabled by the use of technologies like innovative library cache, advanced compression, and a high-performance relational database management system (RDBMS).
Dimensions Speed
The speed of Serena Dimensions CM can dramatically help globally distributed development teams using a WAN.
Dimensions CM Integration
Serena Dimensions CM integrates with many IDEs like Eclipse.
Rich lifecycle integration support
Software change and configuration management (SCCM) does not stand in isolation. Serena Dimensions CM integrates with many popular application lifecycle tools straight out of the box, including integrated development environments (IDEs) like .NET and Eclipse, defect tracking, build, test management tools, and help desks. In addition, Serena Dimensions CM provides extensive SOAP-based web services, making it possible to integrate Serena Dimensions CM with other applications in a flexible, easy to maintain way. The latter has also been used to tightly orchestrate Serena Dimensions CM in Serena’s orchestrated application lifecycle management (ALM) solution suite.
Highly flexible lifecycle and metadata support
Serena Dimensions CM's highly flexible configuration management is perfect for even the most complex development process and approval cycles. With powerful process management and workflow, which is applicable to any type of object like project components, baselines, and files, you can automate and orchestrate your configuration management best practices, maintaining full control throughout the entire application lifecycle.
Dimensions CM Project Organization
Serena Dimensions enables developers to organize projects with a traditional physical structure and a logically structured approach using "design parts". Project organization set up your way
With Serena Dimensions CM, you can organize your projects based on a traditional, physical structure, or you can organize them logically with "design parts." Logical organization is ideal for component-based development, since it facilitates code sharing and reuse by sharing a design part across projects. It also enables more granular role-based authorization. Your outsourced vendors can have complete access to the parts for which they have responsibility, but not other parts of the project.
Dimensions CM Security
Role-based security in Serena Dimensions CM helps you work more easily with outsourced development teams.
Market leading role-based security
Separation of roles and responsibilities is a typical security and regulatory requirement. Serena Dimensions CM makes this easy through its granular role – and privilege-based authorization. Serena Dimensions CM meets both strong security demands and the wide accessibility needs that are typical of a global enterprise. It includes a highly configurable security model, which gives you maximum flexibility to meet business needs without compromising security.
More than SCCM alone
Serena Dimensions CM goes beyond the capabilities of a typical SCCM solution. The product also provides build and deployment management. The latter is often used to create a "gold vault" repository of software artifacts without compromising security.